Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Garden City South, New York

Five hundred 1.5 inch buttons at $1.32 each, which is the 500 to 999 rate, is $660.00 in buttons, and the flat shipping charge for an order that size is $19.99, so the order comes to $679.99 before tax. That is the whole sum, and there is nothing hiding underneath it. What it buys is 500 round, full colour pin-back buttons, printed from artwork you upload, in the middle of the five sizes. For a team parent that is usually enough to cover the roster, the coaching staff, the siblings, the grandparents and a box left over for whoever turns up at the last home game. This page works that arithmetic through for supporter buttons ordered from Garden City South, because the number a team parent needs is the all in one, not a range.

Where the $679.99 comes from

There are two lines and only two. The first is buttons: a per button price multiplied by how many you want. The second is shipping, which is a flat charge chosen by the total number of buttons on the order. In the example above, 500 multiplied by $1.32 gives $660.00, the 500 button count puts the order in the $19.99 shipping band, and $660.00 plus $19.99 is $679.99. Tax is calculated on top at checkout. Any other quantity checks out on paper with the same two lines.

Five sizes, and the rate each one starts at

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else. The 1 inch is $1.49 each, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each, and the 3 inch is $2.49 each.

A size's own count picks its rate, not the order total. The gap between them is real: twelve pays the listed rate while a thousand of one size needs a quote. The thresholds are printed, so there is nothing to hunt for and nothing to pad towards blindly. This matters more than it sounds like it should, because the usual instinct on a team order is to round the count up in the hope of landing a better rate. There is no better rate to land. Order the number you actually need.

Size choice is therefore a design question rather than a budget one. The 1.5 inch reads as a lapel or backpack button and works when the artwork is a single number, a letter, a simple crest or a face at close range. The 2.25 inch is the size most people picture when they hear the word button, and it holds a name plus a number plus a small logo without anything getting tight. The 3 inch carries a team photo, a full roster line or a group shot, and it is the one that still reads from the far side of a set of bleachers.

Shipping is the line that moves

The flat shipping tiers go by total buttons on the order:

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

Both ladders break at 100, 250 and 500, and they pull in opposite directions. That makes tier boundaries worth a glance before you submit. The worked example above sits at exactly 500 buttons, which is the top of the $19.99 band. Adding one more button to that order, for a total of 501, pushes it into the $24.99 band and adds $5.00 to the total for the sake of a single button. If you are hovering at 501 or 502 because somebody remembered a cousin, it is worth deciding whether the extras go on this order or wait.

Ordering when the street address does the work

Garden City South does not have a ZIP code of its own on file with us. Nothing is broken and nothing is missing on your end. Orders here are keyed off the street address, which is the field that actually routes the parcel, and the checkout does not need a separate lookup to accept one.

In practice that means you fill in the street address exactly as you would write it on an envelope, including the apartment or unit line if there is one, and leave the rest to the address itself. If a form asks you to pick a locality from a list and the one you want is not there, choosing the mailing locality your post already uses will not misroute anything. Nassau County is the county for all of it. None of this changes the price, the sizes, or the shipping tier your order falls into.

How far out you are

The straight line distance from the shop is 18.1 miles, to the south west. That is a map measurement rather than a journey, and it has no effect on what an order costs: shipping is the flat tier and nothing else.

We write the same pages for the places immediately around you. West Hempstead is

1.2 miles away and Franklin Square is also 1.2 miles away. Garden City is 1.7 miles away. New Hyde Park and Garden City Park are both 2.1 miles away. If your team pulls players from more than one of those, everything on this page applies to all of them identically.

Artwork for a round button

Buttons print in full colour from a file you send us. The thing worth planning for is the shape. The printed disc wraps around the edge of the button before it is clamped, so a ring of your artwork around the outside curves away from the viewer. Anything you need read head on, a number, a surname, a score, belongs comfortably inside the middle of the circle rather than pressed against the rim. Backgrounds, stripes and team colours can run right off the edge and usually should.

Four people this page is for

The team parent with a roster. You have a list of names and numbers and you want one button per player with the player's own number on it. Every one of those is a separate design, and the per button price does not change because of it.

The booster treasurer working to an approved figure. You need a total you can put in front of a committee, not a range. Nothing about the rate changes until one size reaches 100.

The coach ordering for one squad. Your count is small, well under a hundred, and you want to know whether a small order is treated differently. It is not. 20 percent comes off at 100 of one size, 25 percent at 250 and 30 percent at 500.

The parent handling senior night. You want the 3 inch with a photo on it, one per family, and you already know the count from the programme. Pick the size for the photo, not for the total.

Common questions

Does my Garden City South order need a ZIP code to go through? No. Enter the street address as you would write it on mail. That is what the order is routed by, and the checkout will accept it without a separate ZIP lookup for Garden City South.

If our Garden City South team orders more than 500 buttons, does the price per button drop? Yes, and the saving applies to the whole run of that size. 500 of the 1.5 inch is $1.32 each rather than $1.89, because 500 sits in the 500 to 999 band. At ninety the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. At 250 it is $1.42 each, because that count reaches the 250 to 499 band. The rate falls in steps rather than on a curve, at 100, 250 and 500 of a size.

Our Garden City South order was 500 buttons and then went to 501. Why did the total jump by $5.00? Because 500 is the top of the $19.99 shipping band and 501 falls into the $24.99 band. The extra button costs $1.89, and the tier change accounts for the rest.

We are ordering for two different Garden City South teams. Is it better to place one order or two? Quantity moves the rate, but only within a single size and only at three points. Shipping is charged per order based on that order's total button count, so two separate orders means two shipping charges. One combined order carries one.

Can we collect a Garden City South order ourselves instead of paying a shipping tier? Yes. Local pickup is free, and choosing it removes the shipping line from the total entirely, leaving only the buttons.